Flying high - Assessing the use of the aerosphere by bats

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-73

  Kalko, Elisabeth K V ^a,b   Estrada Villegas, Sergio ^c   Schmidt, Michael ^d,e   Wegmann, Martin ^d,e   Meyer, Christoph F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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EID: 47249101176     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icn030     Document Type: Review

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